PART ONE In the Land of the Forefathers
1(16)
Leaving
3(5)
The Great Migration, 1915-1970
8(9)
PART TWO Beginnings
17(164)
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney
19(17)
The Stirrings of Discontent
36(11)
George Swanson Starling
47(25)
Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
72(23)
A Burdensome Labor
95(29)
The Awakening
124(41)
Breaking Away
165(16)
PART THREE Exodus
181(42)
The Appointed Time of Their Coming
183(22)
Crossing Over
205(18)
PART FOUR The Kinder Mistress
223(210)
Chicago
225(2)
New York
227(3)
Los Angeles
230(8)
The Things They Left Behind
238(4)
Transplanted in Alien Soil
242(18)
Divisions
260(25)
To Bend in Strange Winds
285(17)
The Other Side of Jordan
302(30)
Complications
332(19)
The River Keeps Running
351(13)
The Prodigals
364(7)
Disillusionment
371(14)
Revolutions
385(28)
The Fullness of the Migration
413(20)
PART FIVE Aftermath
433(94)
In the Places They Left
435(10)
Losses
445(10)
More North and West Than South
455(10)
Redemption
465(16)
And, Perhaps, to Bloom
481(10)
The Winter of Their Lives
491(25)
The Emancipation of Ida Mae
516(11)
Epilogue 527(12)
Notes on Methodology 539(6)
Afterword 545(2)
Acknowledgments 547(8)
Notes 555(34)
Index 589(32)
Permissions Acknowledgments 621